This scenario is valid only if: – You have not re-installed your OS – You don’t have a copy of your configuration database – The copy of your configuration that is on your PPU is somehow missing Otherwise, please follow this guide instead (minus the restore section): http://wiki.flexraid.com/2012/03/24/how-do-i-restore-if-i-lose-both-my-os-drive-and-a-data-drive-and-dont-have-backups-of-my-raid-config/ This guide is also helpful: http://wiki.flexraid.com/2012/03/25/how-do-i-add-my-drive-back-to-the-pool-after-re-installing-my-os/ To Full Article…

If you re-install your OS and copy over your configuration database from backup, you drives will show up as missing in the Drive Manager while showing up as available for pooling in the lower section. Important: the first PPU drive must be the first drive to be reinstated. The process will fail if you don’t Full Article…

If you are in the unique case whereas you lost a drive and at the same time you lost your OS and don’t have a backup of your configuration database, all is not lost. However, you will need to follow the steps below: 1. Import your configuration, which is stored on the first PPU. Full Article…

Part I: If you get this error, it is because you are missing a registry key. Please add the following registry entry to your system: For 32 bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket For 64 bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket It needs to be a registry folder (not a DWORD). In a DOS prompt run: For 32 bit Windows: REG Full Article…

By default, the maximum number of open fd descriptors is pretty low. Please see this article on how to increase it. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/ As reported in this bug report (http://bug.flexraid.com/view.php?id=195), changing the user level limit seems to have the most effect. As per the comments in that report, the user had to add the following to Full Article…

FlexRAID runs by default under the local system account on Windows or a specific user on Linux. As such, the account under which FlexRAID runs must have full control over the drives that you intend to include in the storage pool. Linux users: check the user’s permissions and grant as appropriate Windows: Right click on Full Article…

Starting with FlexRAID 2.0 beta build 15, users can execute custom scripts before and after the pool is started or stopped. Users will need to create one or more of the following 4 scripts in the FlexRAID install ROOT (create only the scripts you need): pool-before-start(.cmd|.sh): called before the pool is started pool-after-start(.cmd|.sh): called after Full Article…

If you are a Linux user and your FlexRAID install seems to have issues handling files with special characters (non-English) in them, please read this post: http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php/topic,434.msg3973.html#msg3973 Essentially: 1. the locale off your OS needs to be properly configured for FlexRAID to pick it up 2. it must be a UTF8 variant to be supported

Real-Time RAID in FlexRAID is implemented by trapping I/O requests on the virtual drive and channeling those requests to files spread across the source drives. Reads and writes outside of the virtual drive cannot be trapped, and are outside of the control of FlexRAID. For that reason, writing outside of the storage pool to the Full Article…

As posted by WaxTrax!: http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php/topic,377.0/topicseen.html Hello, I just installed FlexRAID 2.0 Public Beta 12 on my Windows Media Center computer (7 Ultimate x64). The computer has two 2TB and a 1.5 TB acting as DRUs, and one 2TB drive as a PPU configured as a realtime storage pool. I set up the storage pool as Full Article…